netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 8/8] net: ipv6: RTM_GETROUTE: return matched fib result when requested

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Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 10:00:36 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 8/8] net: ipv6: RTM_GETROUTE: return matched fib
 result when requested


> On May 25, 2017, at 9:54 AM, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I'd prefer to see the typecasts go away and use container_of to go from
>> dst_entry to rt6_info. I realize some of this is movement of existing
>> code, but better to clean up as we go.
>> 
> 
> ack. But that is pretty much all of ipv6 code. so, seems better done
> with an incremental cleanup patch.
> 

For the rest of the ipv6 code, yes. We can do the right thing now for new code and changes to existing code.